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- 0:00Speaker 1: Lately welcome the late to play.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Well.
- 0:07Speaker 3: Good evening, I'm James Macpherson, with Liz Staurra and Caleb
- 0:10Speaker 3: Bond coming up. A school teacher sues the Education Department
- 0:14Speaker 3: after injuring herself playing basketball in high heels. Who could
- 0:18Speaker 3: possibly have predicted that? Plus when we look at the papers,
- 0:22Speaker 3: a Chinese swimmer's performance at the Olympic Games called not
- 0:26Speaker 3: humanly possible, and a new South Wales coal fired power
- 0:30Speaker 3: station's output at a five year high as renewables fail
- 0:34Speaker 3: to keep sydneysiders warm. But first, we want to kick
- 0:38Speaker 3: off the program by showing you new footage of the
- 0:41Speaker 3: attempted Trump assassination. This vision, filmed by a victim of
- 0:45Speaker 3: the shooter just three minutes before shots were fired, shows
- 0:49Speaker 3: the shooter clearly visible and with a clear line of
- 0:53Speaker 3: sight to Donald Trump. Have a look now, James Copenhager,
- 1:10Speaker 3: who took that video just three minutes before shots were fired.
- 1:14Speaker 3: He was actually shot twice in the arm and the abdomen.
- 1:17Speaker 3: He's recovering, but the video is further evidence that Thomas
- 1:22Speaker 3: Crooks could be easily seen, despite testimony from Secret Service
- 1:26Speaker 3: snipers who said they never spotted him until just seconds
- 1:30Speaker 3: before shots were fired. Now, obviously some people believe there's
- 1:34Speaker 3: some kind of conspiracy here. Others believe it's just a
- 1:37Speaker 3: litany of gross ineptitude. I guess we don't know, and
- 1:41Speaker 3: we may never know. But Caleb videos like this, they
- 1:45Speaker 3: certainly raise a whole lot more questions, don't they.
- 1:47Speaker 4: Oh, they certainly do. I can understand why they didn't
- 1:50Speaker 4: see him there. I can't see you either, James mcpherston,
- 1:53Speaker 4: are you even on.
- 1:54Speaker 1: This guest with me?
- 1:55Speaker 4: Seriously, the more we see this stuff, and I mean
- 1:59Speaker 4: it's it's obviously taken weeks for this vision to come
- 2:01Speaker 4: out because the poor bugger was shot himself. But the
- 2:05Speaker 4: more you look at it, the more you got to
- 2:07Speaker 4: say it was either the most monumental cockup in the
- 2:11Speaker 4: history of cockups let's go back forty million years worth
- 2:14Speaker 4: of them, it would be the worst you've ever found,
- 2:17Speaker 4: or it was allowed to happen. Seriously, how could he
- 2:22Speaker 4: have taken that vision and all those other people who
- 2:25Speaker 4: were standing behind Trump of course, would have been able
- 2:28Speaker 4: to see that. We know that there were people on
- 2:30Speaker 4: the other side of the fence who weren't inside the rally,
- 2:33Speaker 4: who were aware that he was on the roof, and
- 2:36Speaker 4: that they had tried to alert police to the fact
- 2:38Speaker 4: that he was there. Then you had a copper who
- 2:40Speaker 4: went up the ladder and looked at the bloke and
- 2:43Speaker 4: then just scurried down the ladder because he pointed the
- 2:45Speaker 4: gun at him.
- 2:46Speaker 1: It is just incredible.
- 2:49Speaker 4: They should have known he was there, and they should
- 2:52Speaker 4: have taken that shot about five minutes before he took
- 2:56Speaker 4: a shot at Donald Trump.
- 2:57Speaker 1: There's just no two ways about it.
- 2:59Speaker 5: They did know he was there. I don't care what
- 3:02Speaker 5: anybody says.
- 3:03Speaker 6: How can that many other people know he was there,
- 3:06Speaker 6: but the people tasked with looking after him, the people
- 3:08Speaker 6: that were being screened at, the guys who were texting
- 3:11Speaker 6: each other saying suspicious.
- 3:13Speaker 5: Person alert, just didn't know he was there.
- 3:16Speaker 6: And now they've got to explain away who the guy
- 3:19Speaker 6: is and the random footage and.
- 3:20Speaker 5: Why he didn't spot him he was running around on
- 3:23Speaker 5: the roof. At least the shooter.
- 3:26Speaker 6: Was crouched down with a rifle trained on him. That
- 3:30Speaker 6: footage was taken just three minutes before Thomas Crook fired.
- 3:35Speaker 6: So you mean to tell me you want us to
- 3:38Speaker 6: believe that you didn't know Thomas Crook was there crouched
- 3:40Speaker 6: down with his rifle trained on Trump at that point
- 3:43Speaker 6: in time, and you didn't notice someone running around on
- 3:48Speaker 6: a rooftop like that is going to draw the eye.
- 3:50Speaker 6: We don't normally see people walking around on rooftops. And
- 3:54Speaker 6: it was so obvious that was captured in this guy's
- 3:57Speaker 6: that's just phone footage. He wasn't there some ubute camera.
- 4:02Speaker 6: You mean to tell me he could pick it up.
- 4:04Speaker 6: And the Secret Service, we've watched all the where they
- 4:07Speaker 6: were positioned, the counter snipers in relation to the not
- 4:13Speaker 6: counter sniper, the actual sniper, as well as Trump stage.
- 4:16Speaker 6: There's just no explaining it away that we couldn't see
- 4:21Speaker 6: this guy who we now know about running around in
- 4:24Speaker 6: the background. Also, how did it take this long for
- 4:28Speaker 6: us to find out about.
- 4:30Speaker 5: This little piece of the story.
- 4:31Speaker 6: You'd think with the FBI on the case, the Secret
- 4:35Speaker 6: Service on the case, the local police on the case,
- 4:38Speaker 6: all supposedly trying to get to the bottom of the story,
- 4:41Speaker 6: and how this could have been such a colossal failure.
- 4:44Speaker 5: The least you can do is send a call out saying, everyone.
- 4:47Speaker 6: Who was at this rally, we want your footage, we
- 4:50Speaker 6: want your photos, we want to find out who's responsible,
- 4:53Speaker 6: if they had help, etc.
- 4:55Speaker 5: And so on. You would think that would be a.
- 4:57Speaker 6: Pretty basic part of the inv investigation. And no weeks later,
- 5:02Speaker 6: they are still insisting that everyone believed that a twenty
- 5:06Speaker 6: year old, unassisted with mental health problems managed to best
- 5:12Speaker 6: the Secret Service, the local police, the FBI, and they're
- 5:16Speaker 6: all just like, oh, well, you know, look, it's just
- 5:19Speaker 6: a colossal failure. As a saying that I like to
- 5:23Speaker 6: repeat at times like this, this many coincidences isn't a coincident.
- 5:28Speaker 4: It's frankly a shame that they shot Crooks dead because
- 5:31Speaker 4: he could be a great asset to the Secret Service
- 5:33Speaker 4: or the CIA or the FBI with his abilities to evade.
- 5:38Speaker 4: Then he could have told them.
- 5:39Speaker 1: All his tricks.
- 5:40Speaker 3: Well, of course, so little is known about Thomas Crooks.
- 5:43Speaker 3: That's the other weird part about this story. Very still
- 5:47Speaker 3: just finding out about social media accounts from when he
- 5:49Speaker 3: was fourteen or fifteen. You'd think he would have known
- 5:52Speaker 3: in that position he was going to be shot dead,
- 5:55Speaker 3: and yet he left no explanation apparently for his actions,
- 6:00Speaker 3: and that his parents haven't been much help either, although
- 6:02Speaker 3: they've been counseled by legal representatives to say nothing at
- 6:06Speaker 3: this stage that hasn't stopped reporters trying to find out
- 6:09Speaker 3: something from mum and dad. Matthew and Mary have look
- 6:12Speaker 3: at this interview or attempted interview with the shooter's father
- 6:17Speaker 3: and have listened to his response.
- 6:21Speaker 1: Explain why your son is there's a limited social server.
- 6:27Speaker 1: Is there any statement you'd be willing to share with
- 6:28Speaker 1: us right now?
- 6:29Speaker 7: Mister Crooks, I got to be.
- 6:35Speaker 5: Suspicion.
- 6:36Speaker 3: I don't know, okay, but I reckon if my son
- 6:38Speaker 3: had done what his boy did. I know you don't
- 6:41Speaker 3: want to be hassled by media, but I've got a
- 6:43Speaker 3: pe as the only thing you say. Wouldn't you just
- 6:46Speaker 3: continually say I am so sorry, I am.
- 6:49Speaker 4: So or you could just not say anything at all,
- 6:52Speaker 4: like he was already walking away, like he didn't have
- 6:55Speaker 4: to turn around.
- 6:58Speaker 1: Sorry sorry gents. Look, I'd really love to stop and
- 7:01Speaker 1: talk to you, but I'm absolutely busting for a whiz.
- 7:05Speaker 4: Like come on, if I were him, I wouldn't even
- 7:07Speaker 4: be showing my face in public, like I would be
- 7:09Speaker 4: that distraught at what had happened. I'd be hold up
- 7:13Speaker 4: in a room somewhere and never leaving.
- 7:15Speaker 3: To be perfectly.
- 7:16Speaker 4: Honest, but it's just a bizarre thing to say to
- 7:18Speaker 4: reporters because and I know, and I say this as
- 7:22Speaker 4: a reporter myself who's bounced people outside court rooms. And
- 7:27Speaker 4: I've bounced people outside courtrooms and have my mobile phone
- 7:29Speaker 4: taken from me and thrown in a water fountain. What,
- 7:32Speaker 4: so I know what adversarial sort of encounters you in.
- 7:38Speaker 4: That's I wasn't going to go into that, but now
- 7:40Speaker 4: you know. But it is so ill advised to turn
- 7:44Speaker 4: around and say something like that.
- 7:45Speaker 1: Because of course there's going to be the piece of
- 7:47Speaker 1: footage that everyone takes notice of.
- 7:48Speaker 4: That's why we're now talking about it on television in Australia.
- 7:52Speaker 4: Is this guy so dumb as to not realize that
- 7:56Speaker 4: announcing that he needs to go and use the bog
- 7:58Speaker 4: is going to be the store.
- 8:00Speaker 6: He's clearly not some slick media trained He's just an
- 8:03Speaker 6: average joe. He's probably no experience in front of a camera.
- 8:07Speaker 5: In his entire life, and utterly overwhelmed he has.
- 8:12Speaker 6: He's gone through absolute hell and probably doesn't know. Many
- 8:15Speaker 6: people don't in those situations know how to behave when
- 8:19Speaker 6: confronted with it, because they're like, I don't actually want
- 8:22Speaker 6: to take responsibility for my son's actions. I had no
- 8:26Speaker 6: awareness of this at the time, so you do have to.
- 8:30Speaker 5: Feel sorry for him, you really do.
- 8:33Speaker 6: But speaking of someone who is polished when it comes
- 8:36Speaker 6: to the media.
- 8:37Speaker 5: Trump found himself summoned.
- 8:39Speaker 6: Before what was going to be several black women being
- 8:44Speaker 6: journalists asking him tough questions, and gosh, were they tough.
- 8:49Speaker 6: You will not see Kamala Harris ever asked a single
- 8:52Speaker 6: question even an ounce as hostile as what Trump was
- 8:57Speaker 6: pummeled with. He pointed out early on in this interview
- 9:02Speaker 6: that you guys told me that my opponent would be here,
- 9:05Speaker 6: that we'd be doing this together. He said he was
- 9:09Speaker 6: there under false pretenses, and yet he was gracious enough
- 9:13Speaker 6: to go ahead.
- 9:14Speaker 5: With the interview.
- 9:16Speaker 6: Check out his answer when he was asked, do you
- 9:21Speaker 6: think Kamala Harris is a DEEI hire.
- 9:25Speaker 8: I've known her a long time, indirectly, not directly very much,
- 9:30Speaker 8: and she was always of Indian heritage and she was
- 9:34Speaker 8: only promoting Indian heritage. I didn't know she was black
- 9:38Speaker 8: until a number of years ago when she happened to
- 9:40Speaker 8: turn black, and now she wants to be known as black,
- 9:43Speaker 8: So I don't know is she Indian or is she black.
- 9:45Speaker 5: She is always black.
- 9:48Speaker 8: College I respect either one, but she obviously doesn't because
- 9:52Speaker 8: she was Indian all the way and then all of
- 9:54Speaker 8: a sudden, she made a turn and she went she
- 9:56Speaker 8: became a black.
- 9:58Speaker 6: Just to be clear, of course, if that reporter is wrong,
- 10:01Speaker 6: Kamala hasn't always identified as black at all. Here's a
- 10:05Speaker 6: little cooking interview she did with actress Mindy Carling back
- 10:09Speaker 6: in twenty nineteen.
- 10:12Speaker 9: Okay, so what we're going to cook today is an
- 10:14Speaker 9: Indian recipe? Yes, because you are idiots, yes, okay. And
- 10:18Speaker 9: I don't know that everybody knows that, but I find
- 10:21Speaker 9: that wherever I go and I see Indian people at
- 10:23Speaker 9: the supermarket on the street, everyone's like, you know, Kamala's Indian, right,
- 10:26Speaker 9: It's like our thing. We're so excited about to have
- 10:30Speaker 9: you running for president.
- 10:32Speaker 6: And back in twenty twenty, CNN did an entire segment
- 10:37Speaker 6: on Kamala Harris's Indian roots.
- 10:41Speaker 2: My mother, who raised me and my sister, was a
- 10:46Speaker 2: proud woman.
- 10:48Speaker 3: She was a brown woman.
- 10:50Speaker 5: She was a woman with a heavy accent.
- 10:53Speaker 6: Of course, this doesn't stop her from now passing herself
- 10:56Speaker 6: off as black in order to, you know, or get
- 10:59Speaker 6: on side more of the black vote, though I don't
- 11:02Speaker 6: suspect that she'll struggle in that respect. Here she is
- 11:05Speaker 6: at a rally in Atlanta. See if you can recognize
- 11:09Speaker 6: the accent and.
- 11:11Speaker 4: You are not just when in twenty twenty and we
- 11:14Speaker 4: don't do it again in twenty twenty four.
- 11:19Speaker 5: Lady, who are you trying to be? That was so
- 11:22Speaker 5: Obama like.
- 11:23Speaker 6: That was so you could hear him in that sentence.
- 11:26Speaker 5: It was like, have you been listening? Have you been.
- 11:28Speaker 6: Watching the Greatest Orators clips? And being like, yeah, I
- 11:31Speaker 6: can mimic this. People will love me too.
- 11:33Speaker 4: It's a bit like when Alexandra Kazia Cortez goes and
- 11:37Speaker 4: speaks in the Bronx and she really turns on her
- 11:40Speaker 4: hood voice, right, and she's not the first one who's
- 11:44Speaker 4: done it. But see, the thing is that she has
- 11:47Speaker 4: as we just show, she's previously talked about her Indian heritage,
- 11:51Speaker 4: and she does have black heritage in that her father
- 11:54Speaker 4: was a Jamaican African man.
- 11:57Speaker 1: But what they're doing is duplicitous.
- 11:59Speaker 4: They refer to her as black as though it's inferring
- 12:02Speaker 4: that she is African American.
- 12:05Speaker 1: Which she is not. I mean, you trace her lineage back.
- 12:09Speaker 4: Her father of four bears were not brought to America
- 12:12Speaker 4: as slaves. That's not what we're talking about here. Her
- 12:15Speaker 4: father is from Jamaica. But they know what they're doing
- 12:19Speaker 4: when they set her up as a black man as
- 12:21Speaker 4: a black woman.
- 12:22Speaker 1: Sorry, don't run with that headline.
- 12:26Speaker 5: Don't run with the head They thought it would get
- 12:28Speaker 5: them more vocal. That is quite true as trans black.
- 12:33Speaker 4: And look, you never know these days, she may wake
- 12:36Speaker 4: up tomorrow and identify.
- 12:37Speaker 1: As a black man.
- 12:39Speaker 4: They know exactly what they are doing when they run
- 12:43Speaker 4: with it. But she scarcely talks about her Indian heritage anymore.
- 12:47Speaker 4: And that's the point that Trump was trying to make.
- 12:49Speaker 4: She's done this sort of full pivot from the Indian
- 12:52Speaker 4: bit to the black bit because she's decided that being
- 12:56Speaker 4: black is more electorally advantageous to Trumpet that around. The
- 13:00Speaker 4: only thing I have to say though about Trump, I mean,
- 13:03Speaker 4: he fronted up to the National Association of Black Journalists,
- 13:07Speaker 4: and I'm assuming that when the word was sent out
- 13:11Speaker 4: to the Dems that they could have someone there. They
- 13:13Speaker 4: were assuming it would be Joe Biden. And Kamala has
- 13:16Speaker 4: since taken over that position and is off doing her
- 13:19Speaker 4: own thing. But the only thing that worries me about
- 13:23Speaker 4: it is that he should have had the presence of
- 13:25Speaker 4: mind to know that that answer was not going to
- 13:28Speaker 4: play well in front of that audience, Like it just
- 13:31Speaker 4: wasn't going to land, and you could hear the reaction
- 13:35Speaker 4: of the crowd when he did it.
- 13:36Speaker 1: The point he is making is not wrong.
- 13:39Speaker 4: It probably just wasn't the right time to make it
- 13:42Speaker 4: in front of that crowd.
- 13:44Speaker 3: So that crowd wouldn't have appreciated. But of course, thankfully
- 13:47Speaker 3: for Trump, the clips gone viral and most people would
- 13:51Speaker 3: agree with what Trump's saying, and that is that the
- 13:53Speaker 3: progressive left continually manipulate reality to fit with whatever narrative
- 13:58Speaker 3: is convenient in that moment. For instance, if they're talking
- 14:00Speaker 3: to LGBTQ community members, well they don't know what a
- 14:04Speaker 3: woman is. I mean, none of us are biologists. But
- 14:06Speaker 3: then as soon as Kamala Harris is running for president,
- 14:08Speaker 3: they can't run enough women for Kamala Harris events because
- 14:12Speaker 3: suddenly they're very clear on what a woman is. In
- 14:14Speaker 3: like fashion, when Kamala is talking to the Indian community,
- 14:18Speaker 3: well she's Indian. When she's talking to the African American community,
- 14:21Speaker 3: she's black, and she needs to be a woman, and
- 14:24Speaker 3: she needs to be black, because God knows, she's got
- 14:26Speaker 3: no policy, she's got no record to speak of.
- 14:29Speaker 4: But she guys have a record to speak of, but well,
- 14:32Speaker 4: it's not a record.
- 14:36Speaker 3: So she talks about her gender and her race, and
- 14:40Speaker 3: when her outraged opponents says, hang on a second, you're
- 14:43Speaker 3: just talking about race and gender, she accuses him of
- 14:46Speaker 3: being focused on race and gender. So Trump is absolutely right,
- 14:49Speaker 3: and we just hope and pray most Americans are smart
- 14:53Speaker 3: enough to recognize this is the typical progressive left playbook.
- 14:57Speaker 3: Divide everybody up into niche categories, appeal to each one,
- 15:01Speaker 3: and entity politics generate enough power.
- 15:04Speaker 5: It only works on the left though.
- 15:05Speaker 6: Right but she's already got all those votes in the bank.
- 15:09Speaker 6: I think most people will have decided their votes now already.
- 15:12Speaker 5: It's very obvious she's.
- 15:14Speaker 6: Going to be the Democratic nominee. Nobody else is putting
- 15:17Speaker 6: their hand up. She'll get a boost, I imagine in
- 15:21Speaker 6: popularity post the DNC, which is due this month, however
- 15:26Speaker 6: long that lasts, and then we've got the election in November,
- 15:29Speaker 6: where all will become obvious. But as Paul Murray when
- 15:33Speaker 6: over tonight. She's actually doing a lot better than most
- 15:37Speaker 6: of us would ever like to believe possible for someone
- 15:40Speaker 6: who is objectively as dumb as a post. This woman
- 15:44Speaker 6: is not to be underestimated. As much as we'd love
- 15:48Speaker 6: to think that Americans would just laugh her off the ticket,
- 15:52Speaker 6: it's simply not happening.
- 15:53Speaker 3: I mean her rally so, I mean, she's got so
- 15:55Speaker 3: many people at the rallies. Of course she gives them
- 15:57Speaker 3: free pizza and puts on rap music with Twerky, so
- 16:00Speaker 3: that kind of helps generate the crowd that I didn't
- 16:03Speaker 3: get you in.
- 16:04Speaker 1: This is not at all I've seen you in a
- 16:06Speaker 1: free pizza before. Come on, it's just a.
- 16:09Speaker 3: Typical Democratic playbook. I mean, we all remember Joe Biden
- 16:12Speaker 3: saying that if you don't vote for me, you ain't black.
- 16:16Speaker 3: He's refresher. Listen, you got to come see us when
- 16:18Speaker 3: you come to New York, VP. Biden, Well, it's a
- 16:21Speaker 3: long way until November. We got more questions, You got
- 16:24Speaker 3: more questions.
- 16:25Speaker 2: But I tell you, if you have a problem figuring
- 16:27Speaker 2: out whether.
- 16:27Speaker 3: You're PREMI or Trump and you ain't black, it's not
- 16:32Speaker 3: really racist. But of course, when Joe Biden nominated Kamala
- 16:35Speaker 3: Harris as his VP. He talked about the fact that
- 16:39Speaker 3: this morning, having nominated her as my vice president, that
- 16:42Speaker 3: little brown girls all around the country will wake up
- 16:46Speaker 3: with great hope. So they've always played this race card,
- 16:50Speaker 3: and Donald Trump wasn't criticizing or attacking her race. He
- 16:54Speaker 3: was criticizing her race baiting, which is what the Democrats
- 16:57Speaker 3: always do.
- 16:57Speaker 6: Exactly, he was basically saying, make up your mind, which
- 17:00Speaker 6: one is it?
- 17:00Speaker 5: Usree Indian? Now you're black. You can't be both. Technically
- 17:04Speaker 5: she actually is both.
- 17:06Speaker 6: But make up your mind or just be honest with people.
- 17:09Speaker 6: Why wouldn't that work if you just said, look, actually
- 17:12Speaker 6: I'm half and half.
- 17:14Speaker 3: Guys out there, the obsession with this is so stupid, right, so.
- 17:19Speaker 6: You got all identity politics is stupid.
- 17:21Speaker 3: I've got two African born sons. They're both black, and
- 17:24Speaker 3: I've always said to them since a little but the
- 17:26Speaker 3: least interesting thing about you is the fact that you're black.
- 17:29Speaker 3: And I mean I wish I was black because they
- 17:30Speaker 3: look a lot cooler.
- 17:31Speaker 1: And with earrings, I'm handsome that you.
- 17:33Speaker 3: They've got swag that I will never have. They always
- 17:36Speaker 3: say to me, Dad, you can't borrow the sauce. The
- 17:38Speaker 3: source is not.
- 17:40Speaker 5: But that's very kind of them. You don't want to
- 17:42Speaker 5: try that.
- 17:43Speaker 3: Far more interesting than the color of their skin is
- 17:45Speaker 3: their character, their ideas, the things that they're good at,
- 17:48Speaker 3: all the things they bring to other people. The color
- 17:51Speaker 3: of their skin is the least important thing, but the
- 17:53Speaker 3: Democrats always make it the most important thing, as if
- 17:56Speaker 3: it equals competency.
- 17:58Speaker 7: All.
- 17:58Speaker 3: It's the problem with identity.
- 18:00Speaker 4: Which I have to say that they gained despite your
- 18:02Speaker 4: your influence, James.
- 18:03Speaker 1: They've they've done really well, but having.
- 18:06Speaker 3: You as it now, absolutely the good thing about adopting
- 18:12Speaker 3: kids is that anything good you can say, but that
- 18:14Speaker 3: was nurture exactly.
- 18:17Speaker 1: It all comes down to him. It all comes down
- 18:19Speaker 1: to your good word.
- 18:20Speaker 4: But of course, you know they've made a race such
- 18:23Speaker 4: a part of the Kamala campaign because now you've got
- 18:26Speaker 4: white dudes for Kamala and you've got white chicks for Kamala.
- 18:30Speaker 5: Imagine if they had white dudes for Trump.
- 18:33Speaker 1: Oh my god, I want to be like white.
- 18:34Speaker 6: Supremacy, white supremacy, But it's white guys.
- 18:38Speaker 5: That come under the like every plon.
- 18:41Speaker 3: We showed the commercial the Democrats are running. Was that
- 18:43Speaker 3: last night or the night before where they're categorizing white
- 18:46Speaker 3: guys for Trump and they're all like serial killers, pedophiles.
- 18:51Speaker 5: Exactly.
- 18:53Speaker 4: The one person who tried to kill Trump, I'm suspecting
- 18:57Speaker 4: wasn't a fan of his anyway. Let's stick to the
- 19:00Speaker 4: US for a moment where they've struck a plea deal
- 19:04Speaker 4: with the man who was the mastermind of nine eleven.
- 19:07Speaker 4: Kalid Shaik Muhammad, who's been holed up in Guantanamo Bay
- 19:11Speaker 4: for some twenty four years or nearly twenty four years,
- 19:14Speaker 4: has finally agreed to plead guilty to terrorist defenses for
- 19:19Speaker 4: masterminding nine to eleven on the agreement that he won't
- 19:23Speaker 4: have to face the death penalty. Now you have to
- 19:26Speaker 4: ask the question, after nearly twenty four years in Guantanamo Bay, A,
- 19:31Speaker 4: why has he finally decided I'm going to fesce up.
- 19:34Speaker 4: He could have fesced up at any point, but of
- 19:36Speaker 4: course he would have been faced the death penalty. But
- 19:39Speaker 4: you would have thought for a terrorist, facing the death
- 19:41Speaker 4: penalty actually makes you the martyr that you want to be.
- 19:44Speaker 4: And what is in it for the DOJ, the Harris
- 19:48Speaker 4: Biden DOJ to finally get this blokeout of Guantanamo Bay.
- 19:53Speaker 1: JD.
- 19:53Speaker 4: Vance, Trump's pick for vice president, was asking exactly that
- 19:56Speaker 4: question today.
- 20:00Speaker 2: Today I heard that the Biden Harris Department of Justice
- 20:04Speaker 2: cut a deal with Al Qaeda terrorists co lead Sheik
- 20:07Speaker 2: Muhammad to avoid the death penalty.
- 20:10Speaker 1: Was reported today.
- 20:13Speaker 2: Now as someone who enlisted in the Marines to serve
- 20:15Speaker 2: after nine to eleven. That is ridiculous, but it's not surprising.
- 20:21Speaker 7: Now.
- 20:21Speaker 2: Just think about the point that we've gotten to. Joe
- 20:24Speaker 2: Biden and Kamala Harris have weaponized the Department of Justice
- 20:27Speaker 2: to go after their political opponents, but they're cutting a
- 20:29Speaker 2: sweetheart deal with nine to eleven terrorists. We need a
- 20:33Speaker 2: president who kills terrorists, not negotiates with them.
- 20:37Speaker 4: Two of his co accused have also been included in
- 20:39Speaker 4: this sweetheart deal. The chief prosecutor on the case, through
- 20:42Speaker 4: Admiral Aaron c Raff, wrote in a letter that in
- 20:46Speaker 4: exchange for removal of the death penalty is a possible
- 20:48Speaker 4: punishment that these three accused have agreed to plead guilty
- 20:51Speaker 4: on all of the charged defenses, including the murder of
- 20:55Speaker 4: the two thousand, nine hundred and seventy six people listed
- 20:58Speaker 4: in the Chard Sheep.
- 20:59Speaker 1: But of course those who have.
- 21:01Speaker 4: Family who were killed in nine to eleven, you can
- 21:03Speaker 4: understand are upset by all of this. Daniel Dilara, his
- 21:08Speaker 4: brother died in nine to eleven. He said, I'm very disappointed.
- 21:12Speaker 4: We waited patiently for a long time. I wanted the
- 21:15Speaker 4: death penalty. The government has failed us. I mean, what
- 21:19Speaker 4: would it have hurt them to just keep the bloke
- 21:21Speaker 4: in Guantanamu Bay until he eventually carcked it. They never
- 21:24Speaker 4: had to get a guilty plea out of him, really,
- 21:28Speaker 4: they know he did it, Just leave him there and
- 21:31Speaker 4: let him rot.
- 21:32Speaker 3: The thing that shocked me is that this still is
- 21:34Speaker 3: still going on. I mean, I'd kind of forgotten about it,
- 21:36Speaker 3: assumed it had all been, you know, taking care of
- 21:38Speaker 3: and putting the dust beIN. Twenty three years later, they're
- 21:41Speaker 3: still trying to work out what exactly to do with
- 21:43Speaker 3: people who murdered near on three thousand Americans on American soil.
- 21:49Speaker 3: And so now they don't face the death penalty, they'll
- 21:51Speaker 3: get life in prison. We don't know where they'll be incarcerated, although,
- 21:55Speaker 3: you know, knowing the Democrats, they'll probably be put in
- 21:57Speaker 3: a midtown hotel and given a credit card with a
- 21:59Speaker 3: thousand dollars on it. That's what they do with everybody
- 22:02Speaker 3: else these days. If you were a relative of someone
- 22:06Speaker 3: killed on September eleven, you would be absolutely ill ageable
- 22:11Speaker 3: that your government has taken twenty three years still hasn't
- 22:14Speaker 3: executed justice. And when they do, it's sloppy justice. That
- 22:19Speaker 3: reflects the fact that moral clarity is sadly lacking in
- 22:23Speaker 3: the United States in pretty much every area.
- 22:25Speaker 5: Well when it comes to the DOJ. When it comes
- 22:27Speaker 5: to the Department of.
- 22:28Speaker 6: Justice, I like to say the jokes in the name America,
- 22:32Speaker 6: because it really is. Whenever these guys are like, oh,
- 22:35Speaker 6: we're prosecuting this, We're prosecuting that, it was two seconds ago,
- 22:39Speaker 6: or at least it feels like we were talking about
- 22:41Speaker 6: the doos Jase against Boeing.
- 22:43Speaker 5: I mean, what kind of case was that? Zero justice
- 22:46Speaker 5: for the victims' families.
- 22:48Speaker 6: So you've had several planes hit the ground, killing everyone
- 22:51Speaker 6: on board, they get away with a.
- 22:53Speaker 5: Rap on the knuckles. The DOJ could.
- 22:56Speaker 6: The very long list that I could reel off the
- 22:59Speaker 6: top of my head of these cases that they say, oh,
- 23:01Speaker 6: we're prosecuting, We're on the case, and then you find
- 23:04Speaker 6: out what was the outcome, and nobody thinks that's justice whatsoever.
- 23:11Speaker 5: And now the.
- 23:12Speaker 6: American taxpayer gets to pay for three square meals a
- 23:17Speaker 6: day and a roof over these guys's head until they
- 23:21Speaker 6: die a natural death.
- 23:22Speaker 3: And you can bet they'll have human rights favists and
- 23:24Speaker 3: lawyers looking after their every need.
- 23:26Speaker 5: Oh they have. That's why they've lasted this long.
- 23:28Speaker 3: But let's not forget that the terror attack that brought
- 23:30Speaker 3: down the Twin Towers was organized by El Kader right,
- 23:33Speaker 3: who would have imagined in the days after nine to
- 23:36Speaker 3: eleven that many years later President Joe Biden would leave
- 23:41Speaker 3: Afghanistan and gift Al Kaider billions of dollars worth of
- 23:45Speaker 3: military equipment and then cut a sweet deal with the
- 23:49Speaker 3: Al Qaider operatives who trained the hijackers, financed the hijackers.
- 23:54Speaker 3: One of these men came up with the idea behind
- 23:57Speaker 3: the nine to eleven attacks, and they allow them a
- 24:01Speaker 3: plea deal, as if you would give them any deal
- 24:04Speaker 3: at all.
- 24:05Speaker 4: Well, the only reason I can possibly think of as
- 24:09Speaker 4: to why they would do this is at the instruction
- 24:13Speaker 4: of Biden and Harris, because they think it might play
- 24:17Speaker 4: well to go into an election saying we finally got
- 24:21Speaker 4: an admission of guilt out of the mastermind of nine
- 24:24Speaker 4: to eleven.
- 24:24Speaker 5: That's the only.
- 24:25Speaker 4: Reason I can think of that you would do it.
- 24:27Speaker 4: But I'm not sure it plays the way they think
- 24:29Speaker 4: it would play that.
- 24:30Speaker 3: There's two things on that. The first one is that
- 24:32Speaker 3: far from take credit for this, and this was one
- 24:34Speaker 3: of the weird things, the White House immediately put out
- 24:37Speaker 3: a statement sort of stepping back from it, saying this
- 24:39Speaker 3: was nothing to do with us. This is the justice
- 24:42Speaker 3: system working itself out. Could you imagine Donald Trump stepping
- 24:45Speaker 3: away from something like that. I mean, he would be
- 24:47Speaker 3: there with the rope saying, let me be the hangman.
- 24:50Speaker 5: Well, no, no, hey, Donald, hang on a minute.
- 24:52Speaker 6: Though he did have four years as president and did
- 24:56Speaker 6: nothing with these guys, the got a hang He had
- 25:00Speaker 6: his opportunities, okay, But the.
- 25:02Speaker 3: Action is being taken now, and it's this administration that
- 25:05Speaker 3: were very quick to put out a statement saying this
- 25:07Speaker 3: had nothing to do with us. The other point about
- 25:09Speaker 3: this is I think the reason why they're scared to
- 25:12Speaker 3: go to trial and pursue the death penalty is because
- 25:15Speaker 3: lawyers will argue that these guys were water boarded, that
- 25:18Speaker 3: they were put under duress, and that was how the
- 25:22Speaker 3: confession obtained, and so I think they're a little concerned.
- 25:26Speaker 1: How it might go.
- 25:27Speaker 3: But that just goes back to the fact if you
- 25:29Speaker 3: fly aeroplanes and buildings killed three thousand people, how much
- 25:32Speaker 3: legalies did it.
- 25:33Speaker 1: But they never had to run the case.
- 25:35Speaker 4: They could have just left them in Guantanamo Bay until
- 25:38Speaker 4: they're carct it.
- 25:39Speaker 6: So now they get to day in a different prison.
- 25:42Speaker 4: They've been much nicer than Guantanamo Bay.
- 25:45Speaker 5: The only difference is like, oh, thanks for the guilty plea.
- 25:47Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, That's all they're all they're extracting is the
- 25:50Speaker 4: guilty plea. But so the admission of guilt, Yes, we
- 25:53Speaker 4: say we did nine to eleven, but like twenty four
- 25:56Speaker 4: years down the line, I don't think anyone was hanging
- 25:59Speaker 4: on it's.
- 26:00Speaker 1: Not the admission of guilt.
- 26:01Speaker 4: It would have been a better version of justice to
- 26:04Speaker 4: leave them in Guantanamo Bay where they get water boarded
- 26:06Speaker 4: and tortured and whatever else until they finally die.
- 26:12Speaker 3: Whoever the last person was to visit Jeff Epstein, You
- 26:14Speaker 3: get him to go and visit them in Guantanamo Bay.
- 26:17Speaker 3: Problem solve. If you want moral clarity, you can't go
- 26:19Speaker 3: better than Israel. They took care of a couple of
- 26:22Speaker 3: terrorists this week and dealt with things strongly in order
- 26:26Speaker 3: to keep their people safe, taking out the Hesbala military
- 26:30Speaker 3: commander at a strike in Beirut and the military leader
- 26:33Speaker 3: of Hamas in a strike on Terehran. Now, predictably, the
- 26:38Speaker 3: Ayatola has come out saying that they will retaliate against Israel.
- 26:42Speaker 3: Have listened to this tweet, he wrote, following this bitter
- 26:46Speaker 3: tragic event which he's referring there to the killing of
- 26:50Speaker 3: Hamas political leader, which has taken place within the borders
- 26:54Speaker 3: of the Islamic Republic. I just got to stop there
- 26:56Speaker 3: for a second. This is amazing how the Iotolra is
- 26:58Speaker 3: suddenly concerned about international sovereign boarders, after financing a thousand
- 27:04Speaker 3: Terrists to go into Israel, after attacking Israel in April
- 27:09Speaker 3: with three hundred drones, suddenly always all about protecting borders
- 27:12Speaker 3: and respecting international sovereignty. Sorry, let me go back to
- 27:16Speaker 3: the tweet before I was rudely interrupted by the Ayatolas idiocy.
- 27:20Speaker 3: He said, this event taking place within the borders of
- 27:22Speaker 3: the Islamic Republic, It's our duty to take revenge the
- 27:26Speaker 3: criminal terrorist Zionist regime martyred our dear guest, yes, who
- 27:30Speaker 3: was also the leader of a terrorist organization that raped, beheaded,
- 27:34Speaker 3: slaughtered and kidnapped civilians. This dear guest in our territory
- 27:38Speaker 3: and has caused our grief, but it has also prepared
- 27:41Speaker 3: the ground for a severe punishment, which is kind of
- 27:44Speaker 3: hilarious considering he's making out like this will be the
- 27:47Speaker 3: thing that finally rouses Iran against Israel. They've been calling
- 27:52Speaker 3: Israel a cancer of virus. They've been calling for Israel
- 27:55Speaker 3: to be wiped off the map for years. They've been
- 27:58Speaker 3: developing nuclear weapons to take care of Israel. They've been
- 28:01Speaker 3: sponsoring numerous organizations to continually make war against Israel. As
- 28:07Speaker 3: I said in April, long before this guy was assassinated
- 28:10Speaker 3: in Tehran, they sent three hundred drones and missiles across into.
- 28:15Speaker 6: Let's be clear, though they can keep bringing up the
- 28:19Speaker 6: drone strike, what is clear was they did that a
- 28:23Speaker 6: month after Israel bombed the Iran consulate in Damascus, Syria.
- 28:29Speaker 3: They've always got a good reason, the Iranians, They've always
- 28:31Speaker 3: got a reason why they.
- 28:32Speaker 6: Suddenly had they did retaliate Israel had gone into Jamascus,
- 28:38Speaker 6: Syria to bomb the Iranian consulate. They knew, of course,
- 28:42Speaker 6: that would require Iran's ire, and that's what came thick
- 28:47Speaker 6: and fast.
- 28:49Speaker 5: Let's me fair when we tell these stories.
- 28:51Speaker 3: I'm being very fair around. I've always been committed to
- 28:53Speaker 3: the destruction of Israel. That event she suddenly aroused him,
- 28:58Speaker 3: his absolutely gone, and that.
- 29:00Speaker 6: Drone strike was just like they woke up one day. No, No,
- 29:04Speaker 6: Israel had even tried to negotiate and say, look, we
- 29:09Speaker 6: know we blew up your concholate in Damascus, Syria, but
- 29:13Speaker 6: for a bit of easygoingness in Gaza, do you want
- 29:16Speaker 6: to do a deal?
- 29:17Speaker 5: My point is, and that was never going to happen.
- 29:20Speaker 3: The io toll of pretending like this recent assassination has
- 29:23Speaker 3: suddenly roused their ire and now they must take revenge
- 29:26Speaker 3: is absolutely garbage.
- 29:27Speaker 5: They're never hidden there.
- 29:29Speaker 4: I told Saying that we're going to seek revenge is
- 29:34Speaker 4: almost something of a non story. I mean, of course
- 29:37Speaker 4: that's what he was going to say. It was always
- 29:38Speaker 4: going to happen, Right, Israel goes after someone in their borders,
- 29:42Speaker 4: of course they're going to retaliate. We all knew that's
- 29:45Speaker 4: where this was going to go. But I think if
- 29:47Speaker 4: you look at the broader context in the rest of
- 29:51Speaker 4: the world, and we'll go to the US because of course,
- 29:54Speaker 4: if there were to be all out war, the US
- 29:56Speaker 4: and the rest of the Western world would be drawn
- 29:58Speaker 4: into this. This is one the reasons I really hope
- 30:01Speaker 4: Donald Trump is elected president at the end of this year,
- 30:05Speaker 4: because despite what Jadi Vance has said about going into Iran,
- 30:08Speaker 4: and I don't think that's the view that Donald Trump
- 30:11Speaker 4: would take. Trump has very much staked the beginning at
- 30:15Speaker 4: least of his presidency on ending war. He's promised to
- 30:18Speaker 4: end the war in Russia Ukraine, for instance. He would
- 30:21Speaker 4: not want to see another war on his watch, and
- 30:24Speaker 4: I think he would work very hard to absolutely everything
- 30:28Speaker 4: he possibly could to avoid any kind of all out
- 30:31Speaker 4: war in the Middle East. If you've got Harris there
- 30:34Speaker 4: as president, and we know how much money that Biden
- 30:37Speaker 4: has given to Iran.
- 30:39Speaker 1: Since he was elected in twenty twenty, I.
- 30:41Speaker 4: Mean, they would essentially be shoveling money into all already
- 30:44Speaker 4: have been shoveling money into Iran that they then misappropriate
- 30:47Speaker 4: to go to war in the Middle East, to which
- 30:48Speaker 4: the US then gets dragged into. Trump's the only man
- 30:51Speaker 4: who can save us from that.
- 30:52Speaker 3: Look Caryl Harris recently gave a speech where she was
- 30:54Speaker 3: telling people we ought not to talk about Islamic terrorism.
- 30:57Speaker 3: We don't want to use that term. So everybody knows
- 31:00Speaker 3: should be weak as dishwater. The other thing, though, is
- 31:03Speaker 3: you have to wonder whether Iran really can take revenge.
- 31:06Speaker 3: I mean, that three hundred drone and missile attack was
- 31:09Speaker 3: pretty lame. Israel shot down pretty much every single one
- 31:12Speaker 3: of them. Iran have been talking for a long time
- 31:15Speaker 3: about doing something to Israel. They've never managed to do it.
- 31:18Speaker 3: They always work through proxies, and Israel have called their bluff.
- 31:22Speaker 6: I don't know about downing that drone strike that we
- 31:27Speaker 6: saw in May, because a lot of experts have said
- 31:30Speaker 6: that Iran was actually running a bit of a drill.
- 31:33Speaker 6: They needed to find out what Israel's iron dome capabilities were.
- 31:37Speaker 6: Fifteen percent of their missiles actually did get through and
- 31:41Speaker 6: cause some damage. But what they have now is Israel's
- 31:45Speaker 6: measure as to how.
- 31:46Speaker 5: Much they can get away with.
- 31:47Speaker 6: And certainly if they join forces as we've been talking about,
- 31:51Speaker 6: they could in the future have a big gang up
- 31:54Speaker 6: with Hesbula Iran calling in However, many other jihadi's they
- 31:59Speaker 6: want to to just have an all in war, which
- 32:02Speaker 6: of course is why Israel is relying very heavily on
- 32:06Speaker 6: America in the event that that happens, because if that happens,
- 32:10Speaker 6: Israel knows I will have bitten off far more than
- 32:13Speaker 6: I can chew, and I need America's help. But I
- 32:17Speaker 6: think it's really clear. Sorry, it's really important to make
- 32:21Speaker 6: something clear when I speak to this issue going forward,
- 32:24Speaker 6: because it is more than possible to support Israel and
- 32:29Speaker 6: oppose net Yahoo. And let's remember, most Israelis love their country,
- 32:35Speaker 6: but oppose this man. We all know the minute they
- 32:38Speaker 6: get to go to the polls on election day, net
- 32:41Speaker 6: Nyaho is a goner. So to say that in order
- 32:47Speaker 6: to support Israel, one must support net Yahoo would be
- 32:50Speaker 6: to accuse most Israelis I'm not supporting their own country.
- 32:54Speaker 6: I hope we can all agree that would be an
- 32:55Speaker 6: absolute nonsense. So let it not be said of me.
- 32:59Speaker 6: I believe that what the Ayatola is saying here, he
- 33:02Speaker 6: is going to keep his word. Trust me, as is
- 33:05Speaker 6: Hesbelah because they warned if Israel retaliates what's happened in
- 33:11Speaker 6: the Golden Heights, which Hesbela, not like them, did not
- 33:14Speaker 6: take credit for that bombing that occurred.
- 33:17Speaker 5: And it is questionable.
- 33:18Speaker 3: Because they they found out it wasn't Jews that were killed.
- 33:24Speaker 5: No, no.
- 33:26Speaker 6: Conflicting reports anyway. That aside, Hesbela made sure Israel was
- 33:31Speaker 6: very well aware.
- 33:32Speaker 5: If you retaliate, be root is our red line.
- 33:36Speaker 6: And the fact that Netnya, who considered it worth the
- 33:42Speaker 6: absolute access of resistance, he is now going to cop
- 33:47Speaker 6: the brunt of you said that he took out these
- 33:50Speaker 6: two evil pigs.
- 33:51Speaker 5: No one's morning. They're passing to keep his people safe.
- 33:55Speaker 6: I simply cannot believe that when you consider the hell.
- 34:00Speaker 5: That now awaits them.
- 34:01Speaker 6: They've already got bomb shelters open, they're preparing for the worst.
- 34:05Speaker 5: This is the very opposite of what you do.
- 34:08Speaker 6: If Netnya, who was seeking peace, he would not provoke
- 34:12Speaker 6: his neighbors like this.
- 34:13Speaker 5: And America begs hims not to do this.
- 34:16Speaker 6: Because their number one priority is to keep this. As Netna,
- 34:21Speaker 6: who promised it's humans, changed his tune.
- 34:23Speaker 5: It's not met.
- 34:24Speaker 6: As Netna who promised keep it versus hamask keep it
- 34:28Speaker 6: in Gaza. We do not need a regional war. And
- 34:32Speaker 6: to say that popping the heads of two evil guys
- 34:35Speaker 6: who are going to be replaced by two more evil guys.
- 34:38Speaker 5: As soon as they're dead. Is was worth what is
- 34:43Speaker 5: now going to happen.
- 34:45Speaker 3: There's three problems. Firstly, to keep them anything that's really
- 34:47Speaker 3: to keep the peace, you've got to have a partner
- 34:49Speaker 3: in peace, and there is no partner in peace anywhere
- 34:52Speaker 3: in the Middle East for Israel, all them.
- 34:55Speaker 5: It is not true.
- 34:55Speaker 6: They have treaties with Egypt, Jordan is currently can I
- 35:00Speaker 6: just finishing to say planning Israel's defense They do have friends,
- 35:04Speaker 6: that's just sorry.
- 35:05Speaker 3: It's all their so called peace partners, whether it's her Mass,
- 35:09Speaker 3: whether it's Israel, whether it's Lebanon who continue to give
- 35:12Speaker 3: Hesbalah free reign, are committed to the destruction of Israel.
- 35:16Speaker 3: They're not peace partners. Second, keep it in Gaza. You
- 35:19Speaker 3: can't keep it in Gaza because this thing is being fueled,
- 35:22Speaker 3: this thing is being planned, it's being financed by Iran.
- 35:26Speaker 3: So it was always bigger than just Gaza. And Third,
- 35:30Speaker 3: Israel know that at some point, and everybody knows this,
- 35:34Speaker 3: at some point, you're going to get a war in
- 35:38Speaker 3: the Middle East, So Israel have a choice.
- 35:40Speaker 5: We just that's not true, Matte. We haven't had to
- 35:42Speaker 5: row in the Middle East.
- 35:43Speaker 3: For many the reason we're trying to stop Iran.
- 35:45Speaker 6: Getting nuclear about October seventh.
- 35:47Speaker 3: The reason we're trying to stop Iran getting nuclear weapons
- 35:50Speaker 3: is because Iran are sworn to the destruction of Israel
- 35:52Speaker 3: and everything.
- 35:53Speaker 5: Israel has three hundred warheads.
- 35:55Speaker 3: And everybody for warheads, and everybody fears if Iran gets there,
- 35:58Speaker 3: they will use them, because that's their stated goal. So
- 36:00Speaker 3: Israel is saying we either sit here like sitting ducks
- 36:03Speaker 3: and just wait, or we do things on our terms
- 36:06Speaker 3: and we teach these nations that we won't tolerate things
- 36:09Speaker 3: and credit to them for that. That's the sort of
- 36:11Speaker 3: government I would want if our nation was under attack,
- 36:14Speaker 3: and it's not just letn Yaho. Any Israeli prime minister
- 36:17Speaker 3: worth their salt would take out terrists wherever they are
- 36:20Speaker 3: to let them all know you will never get away
- 36:23Speaker 3: with this, will never go soft on you. Moral.
- 36:25Speaker 6: I think he's already proved that well and truly, and
- 36:28Speaker 6: I just think for any reasonable person to agree that
- 36:31Speaker 6: popping the heads of two evil guys who are going
- 36:33Speaker 6: to be replaced by two just as evil guys is
- 36:35Speaker 6: going to be worth the all out war that he
- 36:38Speaker 6: has I would say, intentionally provoked because he knew that Hesbela,
- 36:42Speaker 6: he knew that.
- 36:43Speaker 5: Iran are now duty bound to respond.
- 36:47Speaker 6: I don't see how any reasonable person can argue that's
- 36:50Speaker 6: worth what's now coming to Israel.
- 36:51Speaker 3: We got to go to a break. When we come back,
- 36:53Speaker 3: we'll look at what's making news in the papers, including
- 36:56Speaker 3: a Chinese swimmer who wins gold. But to everyone's saying
- 36:59Speaker 3: that swim was not humanly possible. It's coming up in
- 37:03Speaker 3: just the moment. All right, welcome back. Let's take a
- 37:07Speaker 3: look at what's making news in tomorrow's papers. But before
- 37:10Speaker 3: we get to tomorrow's papers, there's news making way right
- 37:14Speaker 3: now with a massive prisoner swap CALEB between Russia and
- 37:17Speaker 3: the United States.
- 37:18Speaker 4: And these are unconfirmed reports. This has been put up
- 37:20Speaker 4: by the Australian literally three minutes ago.
- 37:23Speaker 1: But to Evan Gershkevich, who.
- 37:25Speaker 4: Was a journalist at the Wall Street Journal had been
- 37:28Speaker 4: accused by Russia of espionage back in twenty thirteen. He
- 37:33Speaker 4: was jailed a couple of months ago July nineteen in
- 37:37Speaker 4: a Russian court was meant to be sent off to
- 37:39Speaker 4: a penal colony. But there are unconfirmed reports out tonight
- 37:42Speaker 4: that there could be a prisoner swap. This is coming
- 37:45Speaker 4: from the Telegraph in the UK with former US Marine
- 37:50Speaker 4: Paul Wheelan. That would be between the US and Russia.
- 37:55Speaker 4: And now the charges were trumped up. I mean, you know,
- 37:58Speaker 4: he was a journalist working in Russia. There was no
- 38:00Speaker 4: evidence that he had done anything wrong. He was detained
- 38:04Speaker 4: for quite some time since March twenty thirteen. They ran
- 38:07Speaker 4: a kangaroo court trial on him a month ago and
- 38:11Speaker 4: locked him up for whatever reason. I suspect political reasons.
- 38:15Speaker 4: But the news that he could well now be freed
- 38:17Speaker 4: obviously will be welcome to him and welcome to all
- 38:19Speaker 4: of us here at News Corp. He's part of the
- 38:21Speaker 4: News Corp family. But news that I don't think was
- 38:24Speaker 4: expected to happen quite so quickly. It was barely a
- 38:28Speaker 4: month ago that he was locked up, and they've already
- 38:31Speaker 4: come up with reportedly some kind of a deal to
- 38:34Speaker 4: free him.
- 38:34Speaker 3: And it wouldn't involve just him. There reporting that this
- 38:37Speaker 3: could involve thirty prisoners from both sides, which would be
- 38:41Speaker 3: the largest prisoner swap since the end of the Cold War.
- 38:44Speaker 3: Back in twenty ten, there was a prisoner exchange involving
- 38:47Speaker 3: fourteen people but as is reported, this one may involve
- 38:51Speaker 3: up to thirty people.
- 38:52Speaker 6: So yeah, well, more details to come, I'm sure. Right
- 38:56Speaker 6: now we've just got the scraps. But it's always very
- 38:58Speaker 6: interesting to question what's behind these swaps, who negotiated them,
- 39:04Speaker 6: how we reached this point, Like you say, Caleb, if true,
- 39:07Speaker 6: if these reports are confirmed, that is record time.
- 39:10Speaker 1: It is record time.
- 39:11Speaker 4: The US probably not the DOJ in this particular case,
- 39:16Speaker 4: but they've been up to a lot of stuff very recently,
- 39:18Speaker 4: it would say. Let's get into some of the other
- 39:20Speaker 4: news floating around today. Now this broke this evening. We'll
- 39:24Speaker 4: get into a lot of the Olympic news on the
- 39:26Speaker 4: front of the papers. But before we get to the papers,
- 39:29Speaker 4: you probably know that we've been talking about the last
- 39:31Speaker 4: few nights two boxers who've been given clearance to compete
- 39:36Speaker 4: at the Olympics. They say that they are female, but
- 39:40Speaker 4: they were banned for competing at the World Boxing Championships
- 39:43Speaker 4: last year because they undertok DNA testing, which found that
- 39:46Speaker 4: they had X Y chromosomes, which would of course indicate
- 39:49Speaker 4: that they are biological men.
- 39:52Speaker 1: Would you believe it?
- 39:53Speaker 5: This evening?
- 39:54Speaker 4: One of those people, Imman Califf, is Algerian boxer went
- 39:58Speaker 4: into the ring with an Italian female boxer, Angela Quarini,
- 40:03Speaker 4: and it took all of forty seconds for missus Karini
- 40:08Speaker 4: to go into the corner and pull out of the fight.
- 40:11Speaker 4: I think we're all waiting for something like this to
- 40:14Speaker 4: happen after all the publicity, the gender storm, as the
- 40:17Speaker 4: headline says there that was created around.
- 40:19Speaker 1: All of this.
- 40:20Speaker 4: It took all of forty seconds for Califf's opponent to
- 40:23Speaker 4: feel like, I'm not safe here and I'm getting out
- 40:27Speaker 4: of here. Doesn't that tell you everything?
- 40:29Speaker 3: In the first forty seconds, the Italian Angela Quarini was
- 40:32Speaker 3: punched in the nose, called the fight off, and then
- 40:35Speaker 3: when asked why, she said, and I quote may people say,
- 40:40Speaker 3: don't go into the fight. It's dangerous. She's a man.
- 40:43Speaker 3: Maybe it's this, So there you go, there you go.
- 40:47Speaker 3: She's called.
- 40:49Speaker 6: Now I'm going to see an apology. We're going to
- 40:52Speaker 6: see a backpedal from the Olympic committee that said, ah,
- 40:56Speaker 6: we're absolutely okay with just making men bashing women a
- 41:01Speaker 6: spectator sport. That's totally fine. Are they now going to
- 41:05Speaker 6: allow the second one to compete? This is the first
- 41:09Speaker 6: one to take the ring. His female component only lasted
- 41:13Speaker 6: forty seconds. Are they now going to backpedal, because if
- 41:16Speaker 6: they have any sceric of decency, we'll see them take
- 41:21Speaker 6: action and very swiftly to say how bad turns out
- 41:25Speaker 6: having woman on your passport, as this committee argued and
- 41:29Speaker 6: we talked about last night, turns out having women on
- 41:32Speaker 6: your passport doesn't actually make you a woman and means
- 41:35Speaker 6: one punch in the face. And this woman is choosing
- 41:38Speaker 6: her life over competing in the.
- 41:40Speaker 5: Sport that she has trained for years for this moment, and.
- 41:43Speaker 6: She has to miss out because some narcissistic bloke has
- 41:47Speaker 6: decided to identify as a woman woman, and she misses
- 41:51Speaker 6: out on everything.
- 41:52Speaker 5: She could have been a medalist. Who knows now we
- 41:54Speaker 5: never will.
- 41:55Speaker 4: And obviously put in harm's way. Let's go to some
- 41:58Speaker 4: other Olympic news. Is on the front of the Daily
- 42:01Speaker 4: Telegraph tomorrow, I think the story that's been on all
- 42:04Speaker 4: of our lips. It says China's defeat of Charmers deemed
- 42:07Speaker 4: not humanly possible. Fast and furious is the headline. Emphasis
- 42:12Speaker 4: on the furious Ozzie swimming legend Kyl Chalmers. By the way,
- 42:16Speaker 4: good Adelaide boy just like me, though I'm not as
- 42:19Speaker 4: adept in the swimming pool, could not have been more
- 42:21Speaker 4: gracious despite being denied gold by a performance labeled not
- 42:25Speaker 4: humanly possible. China's Pan Zanli smashed the one hundred meter
- 42:30Speaker 4: world record byero point four of a second, infuriating some,
- 42:34Speaker 4: including elite Australian coach Brett Hawk. And it was mister
- 42:37Speaker 4: Hawk who said that it was not humanly possible. Now,
- 42:40Speaker 4: everything that we know about Russia and the alleged doping
- 42:45Speaker 4: in which it has engaged, particularly in relation to its
- 42:48Speaker 4: swimming and we talked about this last night, the case
- 42:51Speaker 4: that came to light earlier this year.
- 42:54Speaker 3: So you said Russia, you mean China?
- 42:55Speaker 1: Which is Russia.
- 42:56Speaker 4: God, I've got Russia on the mind from the last
- 42:58Speaker 4: three That wouldn't be so two sort of dictatorial regimes.
- 43:02Speaker 4: They may well be involved in doping as well. China,
- 43:06Speaker 4: they're doping stuff.
- 43:07Speaker 1: So the story that we learnt back in April.
- 43:10Speaker 4: Julian Linden in the in the Daily Telegraph, a story
- 43:14Speaker 4: that had been suppressed by both China and the World
- 43:16Speaker 4: Anti Doping Authority or Agency as it's called, from before
- 43:21Speaker 4: the Tokyo Olympics, where twenty three Chinese swimmers had tested
- 43:26Speaker 4: positive to a heart drug that allows more blood to
- 43:29Speaker 4: flow to the heart. They determined that all of those
- 43:32Speaker 4: positive tests were just contamination and no one was told
- 43:35Speaker 4: about the fact that it had happened.
- 43:37Speaker 1: Then we had the story we learnt about yesterday.
- 43:39Speaker 4: Where two Chinese swimmers were suspended for a year and
- 43:43Speaker 4: they didn't tell anyone that that had happened until they
- 43:45Speaker 4: determined that the steroids they had tested positive too had
- 43:49Speaker 4: in fact been in a burger they had eaten and
- 43:51Speaker 4: washed down with fries and soft drink. They blamed that
- 43:54Speaker 4: on Australian beef in twenty twenty one, despite the fact
- 43:59Speaker 4: that there was a bad put on Australian beef being
- 44:01Speaker 4: imported into China in twenty twenty And now we are
- 44:05Speaker 4: to believe that this particular gentleman was able to beat
- 44:09Speaker 4: Kyle Charmers by the biggest margin in this particular event
- 44:15Speaker 4: in ninety six years now. I'm not suggesting that he
- 44:19Speaker 4: has doped, but my god, there might be the question
- 44:23Speaker 4: on a few of our lips, could this guy have doped?
- 44:26Speaker 1: Seriously?
- 44:27Speaker 3: And this is the problem with the way the Olympic
- 44:29Speaker 3: Committee are doing things right because Let's imagine he hasn't doped.
- 44:32Speaker 3: So the guy's just swung the race of his life,
- 44:34Speaker 3: the best in almost one hundred years, and everyone's like, yeah,
- 44:37Speaker 3: we're not social and it's because of the way that
- 44:39Speaker 3: the IOC do everything so secretively.
- 44:42Speaker 1: Well it's not the IOC in this case.
- 44:44Speaker 6: It's wow, yes, right, they're all tested. So in order
- 44:48Speaker 6: for him to actually have doped and successfully made it
- 44:51Speaker 6: into the pool, jumped up on something giving him superhuman
- 44:54Speaker 6: strength to win, indeed more than when create a new record,
- 44:59Speaker 6: won this bit.
- 45:01Speaker 5: Surely the testing, that's the whole purpose of the testing.
- 45:04Speaker 4: Well, not necessarily, not necessarily, And this is where the
- 45:07Speaker 4: whole business with China Arder comes into.
- 45:10Speaker 1: That's China's antidoping agency. Because if we go back to
- 45:12Speaker 1: that case before the.
- 45:13Speaker 4: Tokyo Olympics where those twenty three swimmers tested positive to
- 45:17Speaker 4: that drug that flows more blood to the heart. Now,
- 45:21Speaker 4: if you use that in the lead up the preparation
- 45:24Speaker 4: for something like the Olympics, you could argue that gives
- 45:26Speaker 4: you an advantage at the Olympics, even though you're not
- 45:29Speaker 4: drugged up at the time, because it allowed you to
- 45:32Speaker 4: train to a higher level and so you could well
- 45:35Speaker 4: do something like that in this particular case, and knowing
- 45:38Speaker 4: the fact that Chinada has actively covered up these cases before,
- 45:43Speaker 4: you'd had to ask the question, could a Chinese swimmer
- 45:47Speaker 4: legitimately dope in the lead up to the Olympics that's
- 45:51Speaker 4: not revealed by Chinader.
- 45:53Speaker 1: You go to the Olympics with nothing.
- 45:55Speaker 4: In your system, but you've been given an advantage in
- 45:57Speaker 4: the leader.
- 45:59Speaker 6: Well, it's important to so that Kyle Chalmers hats off
- 46:02Speaker 6: to him, the OSSI who's now summer saying, oh he
- 46:05Speaker 6: was wrobbed.
- 46:05Speaker 5: This guy couldn't have possibly done this.
- 46:07Speaker 6: He's been so gracious about it, he says, I trust
- 46:10Speaker 6: that he's done everything you possibly can to be there.
- 46:13Speaker 4: I e.
- 46:13Speaker 6: At the Olympics, and he deserves that gold medal, and
- 46:16Speaker 6: I did everything I possibly could to challenge for that
- 46:19Speaker 6: gold medal.
- 46:20Speaker 5: So he's been very gracious.
- 46:21Speaker 6: He's not actually casting any aspersions whatsoever.
- 46:24Speaker 5: Well, he can't kid me the first person too. I
- 46:26Speaker 5: know I would be I'd like you beat me yet cheated.
- 46:29Speaker 4: He can't do it publicly, but I can, and that's
- 46:31Speaker 4: why I've done it. And that's what my column is
- 46:33Speaker 4: in the Advertiser as well tomorrow make sure you check that.
- 46:36Speaker 4: And just a reminder before we go to the break.
- 46:39Speaker 4: Unconfirmed reports tonight that Evan Gershkevich, a wall I was
- 46:43Speaker 4: going to say, Wall Street journal journalist who was detained
- 46:46Speaker 4: in Russia, may well be freed in a prisoner swap
- 46:50Speaker 4: deal with the US.
- 46:52Speaker 3: Very good, Well, we're going to go to a break.
- 46:53Speaker 3: When we come back, a schoolteacher sues the education department
- 46:57Speaker 3: after she injures herself playing basketball. It's coming up in
- 47:00Speaker 3: a second. Welcome back, Well, Lis on TikTok. I don't
- 47:06Speaker 3: know if you are, but.
- 47:09Speaker 6: That they already have no he certainly well, he deeply
- 47:12Speaker 6: regrets it now. Twenty nine year old craigmore Man was
- 47:16Speaker 6: hooning happily through McLaren Vale, showing himself filming himself rather
- 47:22Speaker 6: doing one hundred and seventy seven k's in a sixty
- 47:26Speaker 6: k zone. He was so proud of this he wanted
- 47:29Speaker 6: to boast about it by putting.
- 47:31Speaker 5: It on TikTok.
- 47:32Speaker 7: Here's the video.
- 47:51Speaker 6: And thanks to his solid belief in how cool he
- 47:54Speaker 6: was being, the police rocked up days later, took his car,
- 47:59Speaker 6: took his license.
- 48:01Speaker 5: And the dudes in big trouble.
- 48:02Speaker 6: You guys, always pick on me when we have those
- 48:05Speaker 6: arguments about whether or not we should make it illegal
- 48:08Speaker 6: for these kids to.
- 48:10Speaker 5: Post their wrongdoings.
- 48:12Speaker 6: In this case, he was twenty nine years old. But
- 48:14Speaker 6: to make these kinds of posts illegal and I have
- 48:16Speaker 6: always argued no, because it helps the cops. It's just like,
- 48:20Speaker 6: thanks for telling me everything about yourself. Now I can
- 48:23Speaker 6: just look you up, rock up at your door and arrest.
- 48:26Speaker 5: You all whatever I need to do for the felony
- 48:28Speaker 5: that you've committed. Case in points, gentlemen, all the lights he.
- 48:33Speaker 3: Got on social media. It was totally worth.
- 48:35Speaker 4: We need a new segment Dope of the Day.
- 48:38Speaker 3: Speaking of which, there's a Victorian teacher who's suing the
- 48:41Speaker 3: education department after she injured herself playing basketball in heels.
- 48:45Speaker 3: Now she's suing the department because they failed to tell
- 48:47Speaker 3: her to remove the heels and put on sports shoes. Moreover,
- 48:51Speaker 3: she says they should have shown her that she didn't
- 48:54Speaker 3: need to jump into the air, oh, shooting a basketball.
- 48:57Speaker 3: Can you believe this? She got a forensic engineer to
- 49:00Speaker 3: give evidence in the case. He measured the size of
- 49:03Speaker 3: the heels, worked out she should have been sports shoes.
- 49:06Speaker 3: The judge said he was not qualified as a forensic
- 49:08Speaker 3: engineer to rule on shoes. The case continues. That's it
- 49:12Speaker 3: from us, but stick around. That readA Pennehey show is
- 49:15Speaker 3: coming right up.